Epic Engineered Hardwood

Engineered hardwood is the fastest-growing segment of the hardwood market. Our company is proud to offer one of the premier engineered hardwood collections available—Epic from Shaw Floors.

What’s so great about Epic? It’s a premium product that provides advanced visual, technological, installation, and long-term performance solutions over conventional solid and engineered hardwood flooring products. It comes in a vast array of sizes, species, surface textures, and price points. Epic can go where other hardwoods can’t—over concrete, in basements—which isn’t possible with ¾” solid products. Any installation method can be used, and no acclimation is needed.

Oak—133% of hardness of solid oak, 125% of hardness of ½”engineered oak

Hickory—120% of the hardness of solid hickory, 136% of the hardness of ½” engineered hickory

Maple—141% of hardness of solid maple, 139% of hardness of ½” engineered maple

Cherry—190% of hardness of solid cherry, 195% of hardness of ½” engineered cherry

Walnut—202% of hardness of solid walnut, 159% of hardness of ½” engineered walnut

Denser

Epic’s 3/8” EnviroCore is denser than ¾” solid oak and all engineered products with softer plywood cores. The result is better overall performance and stability but in a more environmentally responsible thickness. More “solid” wood fiber per cubic inch than thicker ½” engineered and even ¾” solid oak!

Comparisons to Epic

½” Brazilian Cherry = 28% less dense

½” Oak = 29% less dense

Solid Oak = 40% less dense

9/16” Maple = 44% less dense

Greener

Epic’s EnviroCore is now Third Party Certified to comply with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s guidelines for Environmentally Preferable Products.

EPP Certification requires that products must be made from 100% recycled and/or recovered fiber and meet the CARB requirements for formaldehyde emissions.

This is the first EPP certification program accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and it is also accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).

The verification for additional LEED credits is underway.

Some other Epic facts:

Comes in premium oak, maple, hickory, cherry, and walnut species

Available in two widths and three ultra-premium finishes that provide maximum wear resistance for lasting beauty

Lifetime Wear Warranty

Qualifies for LEED for home

Made in the USA

Featured in the HGTV Green Home for 2008 and 2009

2 trees minus 1 tree equals Epic:

Epic uses fewer resources, thanks to EnviroCore, which is made from every part of the tree that would otherwise have been burned or sent to the landfill. 3/8” Epic uses 50% fewer trees—that is, for every two trees used to make 3/8”-thick conventionally engineered hardwood flooring, it only takes one tree to make the same amount of Epic 3/8”-thick hardwood flooring.

Check out the many benefits of EnviroCore—Shaw’s dense inner core made of recycled wood by-products:

Ultra-straight boards and precision milling—enabling faster installation without having to pry bowed or warped boards into place; providing an advanced patent-pending tongue-and-groove system for easier glue-down installs with much less gapping and, ultimately, less mess